A discreet indication
Blokes Up North is the account by two Royal Marines officers, Kev Oliver and Tony Lancashire, of their journey by sail and oar in a small open boat through Canada’s Northwest Passage. It was a best-seller by the modest standards of Lodestar Books, which is why it is now out of print (the object of the exercise for a publisher!). The book was written by both authors in turn, a paragraph or two at a time, and we wanted some unobtrusive way to indicate the current ‘voice’. I came up with a discreet grey initial in the left-hand margin whenever the writer changed between Kev and Tony, something quite easy to set up with a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign. You can see a few pages below.
